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Aline Pouget

Aline Pouget

Aline Pouget is a French contemporary painter who works between Paris and Blois-Chambord. Having always been drawn to the beauty and colors of nature, her transition to creating art came naturally. She began with watercolor and quickly moved on to oil painting, which gives her greater satisfaction. She paints on canvas or wooden supports.

The search for color, light, life, and the beauty of the world around us is the foundation of her art. Her approach allows her to express emotions and feelings that she transposes into her paintings with strength and depth. The intimate meaning of her thoughts, life experiences, and deepest sensations, her sense of the duality between good and evil, shapes her work.

She is inspired by nature, and her masterful paintings form a visual syntax ranging from abstract compositions reflecting an organic universe to expressive portrayals of natural beauty. Revealing and profound, the whirlwind of her compositions highlights her love of nature. Interpretations can vary from palliative and pristine to intensely immersive and profound.

Illuminating the very essence of nature and life by juxtaposing them in highly tangible scenes, she bridges the worlds of realism and abstraction. Her paintings capture her visceral response to the universe.

Through a rainbow of colors, the artist employs a palette of varied and monochromatic tones that give each work a vibrant sense of life. This is enhanced by the dynamic style of her compositions and her energetic brushstrokes. A powerful sense of movement and emotion resonates in her work, along with a unique sense of perspective and depth.

The work and vision of Aline Pouget, born from the observation of nature, color, light, and movement, allow her to translate and express her emotions and thoughts, and to share them with the world through her paintings.

Aline Pouget says: "My happiness and my accomplishment are to share my passion, my love of life, the universe, the colors, the light and my multiple emotions through my work."

Aline Pouget, internationally awarded contemporary painter, has exhibited in remarkable places such as the Vatican Chancellery, the Vicar's Palace in the Vatican during the jubilee year, the Whitney Gallery in New York, the museums of Turin and Barcelona among others.

She has also participated in several major biennials, invited many times to the Florence Biennale, she has also exhibited at the Venice Biennale at the MUSA Pavilion in Palazzo Pisani Revedin in July 2022, at the Rome Triennale. She was invited to the Grand Prix de Rome Capital in December 2021.

Her exhibitions continued at Art Basel 2023 and at Art Capital Paris at the Grand Palais in 2025. It was present at the Japanese digital exhibition site of the company AATANOU throughout 2024.

Aline Pouget is featured in the encyclopedia Atlante Contemporary In Arte, one of the only publications archived by the Venice Biennale in 2022. This encyclopedia, which introduced the artist, was republished in 2024 in partnership with the Italian Senate. It was previewed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and exhibited at Art Basel Miami.

Among the many awards Aline Pouget has received are The Highest Recognition of Arts, Sciences and Culture from the association Italia in Arte, which includes representatives of the Vatican and World Heritage officials, as well as the prestigious Golden Lion of Venice, the Oscars, and the Palmes d'Or.

At Aline Pouget's exhibition at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York, the curators' review committee said: "…Our committee salutes you for your work, with its important visual narrative and its emotional connection to the human and artistic experience. We are amazed by your wonderful artistry and the positive energy of your stellar compositions.

"Kandinsky mused: “To bring the whole into harmony on the canvas is what leads to a work of art.” Inspired by Kandinsky’s credo, a feeling of harmony and a quest for the beautification of nature are the dominating aesthetic forces of Aline Pouget’s masterful tableaux. Distilled from the soul of nature, her visceral abstract works infuse their space with a fulcrum of expressive sensations, resonating with the emotional essence of the natural world.

An appreciation for the wonder of nature fills her art with an aesthetic of harmonious vitality, as her organically atmospheric paintings come alive with an energetic tranquility. Creating her compositions in oil paint on canvas, she allows her tableaux a balanced space to develop their full impact….”

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Contrastes lumineux dans le cosmos, 2019, Oil on canvas, 54 x 73 cm

Lumières dans l'univers, 2018, Oil on canvas, 73 x 91 cm

Tourbillon cosmique, 2020, Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm

Etude d'un coucher de soleil, 2023, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm

Coucher de soleil, 2022, Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm

Vagues, 2019, Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm

Nébuleuse, 2017, Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm

Reflets, 2022, Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm

Crépuscule, 2020, Oil on wood, 65 x 54 cm

Infini, 2017, Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm

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